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Kanikôsen (2009)

Kanikôsen (2009)

Drama
Release Date: 2009, July 4
Directors: SABU
Countries: Japan
Production: Smoke, DUB
Cast: Tokio Emoto, Kengo Kora, Toru Tezuka, Denden, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Mitsuki Tanimura, Ryuhei Matsuda, Yutaka Shimizu, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Masaki Miura, Hirofumi Arai, Go Riju

Overview:

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.